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CLEVELAND BAYS AND YORKSHIRE COACH HORSES. Jf) 



a stallion. Cleveland Bay stallions are also sometimes resorted 

 to in the case of very light or undersized mares. A different 

 type of thoroughbred stallion should be used for a Coaching 

 mare than that recommended for a Cleveland mare. More 

 size and length are desirable ; the shoulders should of course 

 be good, but the back and loins are not of so much import- 

 ance, whilst it is of importance that the quarters should be 

 long and level, and that the tail should not droop, but should 

 be well set on and well carried. Indeed, the thoroughbred 

 horse selected should possess as much as possible that 

 elegance of the quarter for which the Cleveland Bay and the 

 Yorkshire Coach Horse are alike remarkable. 



The Yorkshire Coach Horse may be described as a Cleve- 

 land Bay with more quality, i.e., more of the thoroughbred 

 quality. His head is smaller than the Cleveland Bay, and 

 more blood like, and the crest is more arched. The Coach 

 Horse is also narrower, and has less bone. Indeed, some of 

 the lighter horses show a great deal of the thoroughbred 

 character. His action is good, and perhaps has a little more 

 style about it than the Cleveland Bay, though this may in a 

 measure be the result of training. Coach Horse breeders are 

 as particular about colour as are their Cleveland Bay friends, 

 and though they admit every shade of bay and brown, they 

 will not look upon any other colour, and carefully avoid using 

 a stallion conspicuously marked with white. 



The general management which answers for the Cleveland 

 Bay will answer equally well for the Coach Horse. It is true 

 that Coaching mares are not so well adapted for farm work as 

 are the more powerful Clevelands, but on a light land farm 

 there are many jobs for which their activity is especially 

 adapted, and they generally are looked upon to earn their 

 keep as well as breed a foal. 



Since the formation of the Cleveland Bay and Yorkshire 

 Coach Horse Societies, both Cleveland Bays and Coach Horses 

 have been more carefully bred, and the difference between the 

 two breeds has been more fully recognised by the general 



